In the naïvité of my teenage years, I remember marveling at the work a friend was assisting in for a major tech corporation. “Instead of random decisions, advertisements can be better designed to match the individual preferences and interests of each user based on their activity online!” It’s a reasonable enough premise, and one we’ve seen take precedence worldwide in the past decade and change, ensuring every time my bratwurst of a thumb thuds a moment too long on a specific Instagram post, my browsers will be filigreed with a tri-colored hoodie t-shirt that I am pretty sure would serve as an internationally understood request for someone - anyone - please kick my ass.
Virtuous Mariners refuse to use personal data to adjust to desires of fans, escape with 7-6 win
